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by Alexander Ertner The riders of the apocalypse moved through the land and left nothing but the ì seed of a very special fruit: you hear the pipes and the lovely chants of ì love and death, sounds of the Medieval Ages go over the land and its ì peoples. For 11 years now, we had the pleasure with the formation Corvusì Corax, whose members - as ev...(展开全部) by Alexander Ertner The riders of the apocalypse moved through the land and left nothing but the ì seed of a very special fruit: you hear the pipes and the lovely chants of ì love and death, sounds of the Medieval Ages go over the land and its ì peoples. For 11 years now, we had the pleasure with the formation Corvusì Corax, whose members - as everybody knows, of course, are also in the ì rock formation Tanzwut. And whoever put his nose out of his cottage ì past summer should have seen a gig by one of those two bands somewhere. For ì so many places our musical friends have rocked. But that´s not all. After ì the good and well-received last album of Tanzwut, the "unplugged" ì version, the original, Corvus Corax, present their new output. ì There is no end to the musical creativity of these heroes of Medieval sound ì - best reason for us to go and talk to these guys on one of their tours. And ì how easy it is nowadays where we don´t have to bang the drums to get in ì contact with each other but can use the most up-to-date form of ì communication: e-mail. So let´s see if this dialogue ain´t right for a ì little talk. Who´s there? "Hello worldwide net! Here are Castus Rabensang and Meister Selbfried ì sitting in Ulm during the Tanzwut - ´Labyrinth der Sinne` (labyrinth of ì senses)-Tour. We are two of the five pipers of Corvus Corax." Nice to hear from you. With your new album, you consistently follow the path ì of classic Medieval music that you have taken for some while now. What´s the ì most important thing about the new album then? "With the c.d. ´Viator`, two years ago, we have created a new style ì which we have improved on the current album, ´Mille anni passi sunt`. ì We exclusively used nature-instruments - we meanwhile own 80 different of ì those instruments. Many of them are to quiet to use them on stage but in the ì studio we could use them perfectly." Surely, it is important that Corvus Corax could engage a very special ì guest ... "From the historic figure, Prinz Draculea Vlad III Tepes, reign of ì the Wallachei in the 15th century, Bram Stoker in his book has made his ì Dracula. For our c.d., we found a direct successor of his, Prince ì Rodolphe Vlad Dracul Kretzulesco, who gives the Rumanian lyrics of the ì title track, ´Mille anni passi sunt`, a very special feel and a very ì mystic sound. We are proud to have found him and could persuade him for this ì project. We are linked by the same walking on the thin line between invented ì truth and historical verifiable." You are using historical facts all the time. "We have used and worked on songs and dances after Medieval ´Neumen` ì (that´s the name for the Medieval musical notation) and transcribed them for ì our own instruments. We allowed us the freedom to change things around a ì bit, by which our modern use of the old material culminates in something ì new." In all your activity, I am surprised that you recorded albums with both of ì your bands at the same time. "We have worked on the new Corvus Corax album for one and a half ì years. During this period, the songs have developed. And in first order, we ì are live-musicians. After a tour or the summer-open air-season we were ì looking forward to some creative studio works." My proposal to go on a double-tour was not very welcomed. "That would end this healthy schizophrenia ... those two bands are playing ì two totally different styles of music. Corvus Corax exclusively play ì unplugged. That an elemental character of the band. So the show of both ì these bands could not be combined." ì However, another tip of mine at the end of this page: listen to both the ì albums of Tanzwut and Corvus Corax! And a last greeting of the ì band to you: "Have fun and rub your steaming sweaty bodies at each other when we .... ì (could be something like ´play for you` ... but suddenly this ´coversation` ì was over. So you have to decide for yourself if e-mailing is the best way to ì get in contact for this type of reason.